Lectures

The course comprises 10 lectures.

Lecture Lecturer Reading Date Slides
Recording and discussion forum
1. Introduction, ML basics, linear models NW [GBC] 1, 5, [LWLS] 2.1, 3.1-3.2 17/3, 13:15-15:00 pdf Download pdf  Lecture 1 
2. Feed forward neural networks NW [GBC] 6.1-6.4, [LWLS] 6.1 24/3, 13:15-15:00 pdf Download pdf Lecture 2 
3. Optimization: Stochastic gradient and backpropagation TS [GBC] 8.1-8.3,6.5, [LWLS] 6.2, 5.4-5.5 31/3, 13:15-15:00 pdf Download pdf  Lecture 3 
No lecture, but there will be a helpdesk session 15:00-16:00 7/4
4. Convolutional neural networks 1 JL [GBC] 9, [LWLS] 6.3 14/4, 13:15-15:00 pdf Download pdf Lecture 4 
5. Convolutional neural networks 2 JL [GBC] 9 21/4, 13:15-15:00 pdf Download pdf   Lecture 5 
6. Over-/underfitting, bias-variance, regularization NW [LWLS] 4, 6.4 [GBC] 7 28/4, 13:15-15:00 pdf Download pdf Lecture 6
7. Practical methodology and batch normalization NW [GBC] 8.7.1, 11, [LWLS] 11 5/5, 13:15-15:00 pdf Download pdf Lecture 7
8. Deep time series models 1 CA [GBC] 10 12/5, 13:15-15:00 pdf Download pdf  Lecture 8 
9. Deep time series models 2 CA 19/5, 13:15-15:00 pdf Download pdf  Lecture 9 
No lectures, but there will be a helpdesk sessions 15:00-16:00 26/5,  2/6, 9/6
10. Project proposal presentation 16/6, 13:15-15:00

After each lecture there will be a helpdesk and Q/A session. 15:00 - 16:00. There is no mandatory presences at the lectures. Only at the project proposal presentations, (if you aim for the optional project extension of the course)

The lectures will be recorded and links will be made available above. You need to be enrolled to the course and logged in to access the recording.

The recommended book for the course is

  • [GBC] Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville Deep Learning, MIT Press, 2016.

We will not follow [GBC] strictly and we do not cover all aspects of the suggested chapters in the lecture. For some lectures (partly 1-4, 7) in the course, the  following book also covers material in a more condensed format.

Another great resource is

which is a bit more hands-on in comparison to [GBC] but does not cover as much and is lacking some details.

For lecture 8 and 9 some additional resources will be used.

NW = Niklas Wahlström
TS = Thomas Schön
JL = Joakim Lindblad
CA = Carl Andersson